This moment quantity of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius covers the interval of the ebook and reception of Helvétius' debatable first paintings, De l'Esprit (1758). It starts with a letter of January 1757, within which Helvétius recounts the test through Damiens at the lifetime of Louis XV, and results in December 1760 while the writer, having been attacked at the degree of the Théatre-Francais yet eulogized in overseas journals, is considering voluntary exile.

In the interim De l'Esprit provoked an uprecedented outcry from the court docket and from the spiritual and civil professionals. Denigrated because the epitome of all harmful philosophic tendencies of the age, condemned as atheistic, materialistic, sacriligious, immoral, and subversive, it loved a massive succes de scandale.

Rather than studying the puzzles and paradoxes which encompass the affaire de l'Esprit, this quantity provides the records upon which recommendations will be dependent. Helvétius' personal letters, usually written swiftly, below tension, and in worry they could be opened through the cupboard noir, are much less revealing than the letters among different protagonists within the affaire: the Cardinal de Bernis and the Duke de Choiseul, Jean-Omer Joly de Fleury, Malesherbes, Saint-Florentin, Tercier, and Louis xv himself.

It is those letters, including the appendixes containing edicts, retractions, an condemnations that shed new gentle not just at the improvement of the affaire but additionally at the complicated workings of the ancien regime

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